Arp-Hansen Hotel Group Expands Zaplox Partnership Through the Opening of Northern Europe’s Largest Hostel

Next House Copenhagen to offer contactless check-in/checkout and mobile keys with mobile guest app and a complementary self-service kiosk solution

Zaplox AB (publ.) (“Zaplox”), which offers hotels and casinos a contact-free mobile guest journey for a safe and engaging guest experience, announced that the hotel chain Arp-Hansen Hotel Group has once again chosen Zaplox Mobile Guest App and Zaplox Kiosk to be rolled out at Next House Copenhagen, the hotel group’s new luxury hostel in central Copenhagen. Next House Copenhagen, set to open in fall of 2021, will be Northern Europe’s largest hostel with 433 rooms and 1,650 beds.

Guests staying at the hostel will be able to choose between using a self-service kiosk to check-in or they can use their own phone for contactless check-in and checkout with a mobile key to unlock the hotel room. Both Zaplox’s guest app and kiosk solution will be integrated with hotel’s lock system from ASSA ABLOY as well as with the Oracle Hospitality Suite8 PMS.

Prior to the stay, guests will be prompted to download the app and can then use their phone for the entire check-in and checkout process as well as a mobile key. In addition, the app will provide mobile access to information about the hostel and things to do in the area, and guests can take advantage of special offers that can be communicated via the app.

Arp-Hansen Hotel Group is Copenhagen’s largest hotel chain with 13 properties and a total of more than 5,000 hotel rooms in central Copenhagen. Zaplox Mobile Guest App and Kiosk solution are already in use at the chain’s other luxury hostel, Steel House Copenhagen as well as at four Wakeup Hotel properties.

Just like Steel House Copenhagen, Next House Copenhagen will not offer a traditional front desk, but instead guests will have several digital check-in and checkout options, resulting in a smoother guest experience with less time wasted in line. As a complement to the app, guests can also use the Zaplox self-service lobby kiosks to check in and print out key cards.

“Arp-Hansen is once again leading the way by providing high quality accommodation and a unique experience for the modern city traveler and we are looking forward to support one of our most regarded hotel customers during this launch,” says Even Frydenberg, CEO of Zaplox. “We are very proud of the renewed confidence in Zaplox to deliver a contactless, digital guest journey to yet another of Arp-Hansen’s properties.”

About Next House Copenhagen

Next House Copenhagen, set to open in the fall of 2021, is Arp-Hansen Hotel Group’s second luxury hostel in central Copenhagen and Northern Europe’s largest hostel. Next House Copenhagen will accommodate 1,650 beds in a total of 433 rooms. Like its predecessor Steel House Copenhagen, the goal is to offer affordable, top-class accommodation at the best central location. In addition to 3,600 m² of common areas, Next House Copenhagen will offer everything from a movie theater to a fitness and yoga studio, and two roof top terraces in the newly renovated building. For more information, visit www.arp-hansen.com/hotels/next-house-copenhagen

About Zaplox
Zaplox helps hotels, casinos and vacation home rentals to create a modern and profitable mobile guest experience. Zaplox is a market innovator of the contact-free mobile guest journey and mobile key services for the global hotel market. The company operates in Europe and North America and offers a turnkey platform for managing the guest’s hotel stay, improving the check-in and check-out process, and distributing mobile keys for the hotel rooms directly to guests’ mobile phones. Zaplox solutions allow hotels to add Zaplox functionality to their existing hotel app, or to launch their own app mobile app in a cost-effective way. In addition, Zaplox solutions save time and costs while providing hotels with a direct channel to communicate with the guests and the opportunity to generate additional revenue. Zaplox was founded in 2010 in Lund, Sweden, and the Zaplox stock is listed on the NASDAQ First North Growth Market.